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Are we too early for cyberpunk?
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| We are early I think. It seems small feat and all as we imagine augmented people against a somehow near future visual setting, but the tech involved is not trivial, rather highly advanced. We surely have reached some milestones that were scifi in the past, but also at a cost which was not thought of in the past. Not in the monetary sense (though also).
| Too early? No, no... we're already here.
| While aesthetically we're not cyberpunk I would say we live in at least the start of a cyberpunk era. With everything becoming connected to the internet and companies slowly trying to take over everything
| we surely are here but we are at a early stage.
| Then it is a /very/ early stage. Reminds me of the flying cars of the 70s or the every-engine-is-nuclear idea of the 40s. We sure have airplanes and nuclear powered submarines, yet no flying cars or nuclear motorcycles.
A good part /hidden, taken for granted/ of cyberpunk is immensely advanced tech available. Very often high priced, but it is there.
| Were already there, its just instead of Japanese megacorps running things its Google, Facebook and twitter running shit.
Kinda dissaponting really.
| Robot police drones are chasing down homeless people in San Fransisco and a handful of corporations control everything. We're living in a shitty cyberpunk future in all but aesthetic.
| Maybe the cyberpunk paradise will be when none of us will still be alive to enjoy it, unless of course we become cyborgs in time
| Cyberpunk has already begin. All we need is WW3 happens in greater scale and pull down the government to let the mega Corp run wild without any restraints on the ongoing technology developments.
| We have corporate and government institutions both taking on more and more power and using technology more and more to exert it so maybe it's happening right now.
| we're there, it's just instead of Ono-Sendai zaibatsu, neon, and brain jacks we have Amazon, Instagram grain, and smartphones.
| Moneys rule the shit, tech development is on a high stakes and the poverty is real and is increasing with years, so cyberpunk is slowly getting a grip over this world. Assume it's arrival in fifty years, maybe bit more/less.
| i actually imagining cyberpunk more like fractal or Last exile than Lain,ghost in the shell, akira, or etc. where the city is populated but you can't just ignore any other places, like on a country side
| Being too early for cyberpunk is like being too late for medieval fantasy.
| >tfw live in very old fashioned European city
What's the point of cyberpunk level technology without the aesthetic? :c
| If North Korea starts some shit maybe a new war will force nations to develop technology and better cop drones
| >>74560
So none of you work in technology related fields involving hardware. Do you know how much maintenance is needed to keep machinery operational? Add the background of a modern global war and we start having a rough approximation of what we are talking about.
| We are early. The 80s was the start of stage 1, now we're at stage 2 incoming stage 3 in a few years.
| ^define stages pls
| >>74592
One thing's for sure- the cyberpunk era was never pretty, and there's no reason to believe that it'll be pretty IRL either.
| >>75752 well, i ain't seeing it's prettiness but i just think i would be fit the best if i live in a cyberpunk world, and i always imagine it like that, you know like the one in fractale, living on the middle of nowhere, grassland everywhere, but your house full of electronic where the new generation could call it "retro"
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| What do you think, When will our earth become like shadowrun or technobabylon?
I just want to live to see this come true even tho I'd probably be dead before this happens...